Edgar Berlanga is not worried about Canelo Alvarez’s strength in this Saturday’s main event. Berlanga says that he has been fought by big boxers, heavyweights, so he knows that he can take Canelo’s power.
(Source: Rey Del Rio/Premier Boxing Champions)
Unified super middleweight champion Canelo (61-2-2, 39 KOs) is predicting an eighth-round knockout of his title defense against Berlanga this Saturday, September 14, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
It will be a long night for Canelo if he doesn’t get a KO because Berlanga is a dangerous striker, and he will be a problem if he continues to fall asleep in the next few rounds.
Canelo’s Poor Gas Tank
Canelo often fades in the second half of his fights, and we’ve seen that in his last five bouts against Jaime Munguia, Jermell Charlo, John Ryder, Gennady Golovkin, and Dmitry Bivol. Alvarez was blank in the last four to six rounds of those fights and was fortunate not to encounter a puncher.
Golovkin had the power to hurt Canelo but surprisingly he punched him instead of fighting, which he should have done in their third fight in September 2022.
Berlanga will not try to beat Canelo. He’ll be gunning for the championship because this is his Super Bowl, and he knows that when it comes to the scorecards, he won’t be awarded a decision against the Mexican superstar.
The most important thing for Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs) is to always be “vigilant” to make sure you see the incoming punches because as he said, it’s the bullets you can’t see that hurt you. That goes for every fighter.
It’s usually the punches they’re fighting that they don’t see that hurt them, which is why counterpunchers or fast speeders hit harder.
“Do you think someone like him hit you?” said DAZN analyst Chris Mannix to Edgar Berlanga about his fight with Canelo Alvarez.
Berlanga will be on Hyper-alert
“You know that the fist that hurts you is the one you don’t see. So, I have to be careful. At that weight, everyone can hit hard. Anyone can hit 168, 175. If you don’t see the shot coming, and you’re not careful, and you get hit, you go down. I don’t care who you are. So, it’s about this [mind] and consciously,” said Berlanga.
In Berlanga’s fights with Roamer Alexis Angulo and Steve Rolls, he was hit with big shots that could knock out anyone in the super middleweight division. He took the punches well because he saw them coming, he was able to brace himself. Rolls and Angulo hit as hard as Canelo, who is bigger than him.
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